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J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1991;54:159-161 doi:10.1136/jnnp.54.2.159
  • Research Article

Diffuse Lewy body disease presenting with a supranuclear gaze palsy.

  1. J M Fearnley,
  2. T Revesz,
  3. D J Brooks,
  4. R S Frackowiak,
  5. A J Lees
  1. National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Queen Square, London, UK.

      Abstract

      A patient with diffuse Lewy body disease presented with supranuclear vertical and horizontal ophthalmoplegia, dementia, axial rigidity and falls, bradykinesia and pyramidal signs. This broadens the clinical presentation of this pathological diagnosis and re-emphasises the heterogeneity of patients diagnosed clinically as progressive supranuclear palsy (Steele-Richardson-Olszewski syndrome).

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